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Innovative technology and top northern bands including New
Order and Doves proved a winning formula at a recent Manchester
benefit concert staged by legendary music photographer Mick Rock
and ex-Smiths bass player Andy Rourke and his company Great
Northern Productions.
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'Manchester Vs Cancer' drew an audience of 10,000 and
raised £150,000 for the city's Christie Hospital,
Europe's largest cancer treatment and research centre.
The money will help fund a Gene Therapy Research Centre backed
by Professor Robert Hawkins, which aims to investigate
alternatives to chemotherapy.
Headlining the event was New Order with support from the Doves,
Elbow, Johnny Marr and the Healers, Nine Black Alps, Stephen
Fretwell, 808 State and Mani from Primal Scream.
Images wifi-ed to live editing desk
Mick Rock captured performances using a cutting-edge Nikon D2X
digital camera and transmitted the images via a wireless network
to the vision mixing console in the MEN Arena. Images were then
edited on the fly and sent as content feed to the lighting
production crew who interpolated the stills in the video and
lighting mix for the performances.
The audience took part in the action by texting the word ROCK to
a short code which then generated a WAP push text message to
handsets linking directly to an online gallery with pictures of
each artist.
The images captured by Mick Rock at the event were made
available to download as souvenir wallpaper images at £1.50
which contributed revenue to the charity. Event images are also
available as print on demand stills from the Mick Rock website
(www.mickrock.com) and co-signed prints of the
stills will later be auctioned on eBay to continue the fund
raising efforts.
Proceeds to cancer gene therapy research
Besides appearing live all the artists offered their concert
stills royalty-free for the charity.
The co-signed prints of the stills were on show until
February 24 at Vox Pop record and memorabilia shop in Thomas
Street, Manchester.
Manchester Vs Cancer was the largest charity gig ever staged in
Manchester and proved so successful that it is now hoped to make
it an annual charity event on the Manchester music scene.
Interest has also come from San Francisco and Sweden about
staging similar events in these venues.
Mick Rock, who launched his career with an unknown David Bowie
in 1972, said it had been a wonderful chance to work with the
cream of northern talent and use the amazing new wireless
imaging technology from Nikon so the audience could interact and
feel a real part of the event.
Andy Rourke was inspired with the idea of Manchester Vs Cancer
after news that members of his manager's family had been
diagnosed with the disease. "I quickly found that most
people's lives have been touched by cancer in some way and
everyone wanted to help."
Image Gallery downloads:
Images from the event can be downloaded from www.mickrock.co.uk/manchestervcancer/
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